president obama comes back tomorrow and the senate comes back late tomorrow, and then we'll see if they can get their act together and get it done. >> what do you think the stop-gap would look like, john? what kind of elements need to be addressed immediately? >> there are four really. one would be an extension of all the bush tax cuts under $250,000 in income for some period of time, probably temporary. the second is a stop-gap measure turning off the sequester for some short period of time. it may have a certain amount of spending cuts in there to in effect pay down what would have been taken indiscriminately across the board. in addition to that you would have the doc fix for medicare to prevent doctors reimbursement from falling precipitously in that program and a temporary extension of unemployment benefits. that's the mini deal we're looking at. the question is whether republicans will cooperate with democrats to do that in the senate and if house speaker john boehner would put that on the floor even if most republicans were not in favor of it. bill? >> okay. we're going to hope t